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stop traffic en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal) To attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive.
    • "Girl, you have a body that can stop traffic! I knew that my baby look ^([sic]) good, but WOW!" 2005, Fannie Harris, Tc: L.O.T., page 11:
    • The designer clothes, the waves and waves of blonde hair, a face that could stop traffic. 2020, Elle Kennedy, The Dare:
    • She was brilliant and gorgeous, apparently happy and fulfilled, a 28-year-old astrophysicist with a body that stopped traffic and a sweet temperament. 1998 February 2, Adam Begley, “Amis Talks American, Takes a Metaphysical Meander”, in Observer, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, traffic.
    • RCMP say a large demonstration continues to block off Highway 4 in southern Alberta on Sunday morning near the village of Coutts, Alta., largely stopping traffic to and from the Canada-United States border crossing. 2022 January 29, Joel Dryden, “Protest convoy continues to block traffic to U.S. border: RCMP”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2022:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
stopped traffic Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stopped traffic Tense=Past lexicographic
stopping traffic Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stops traffic Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

traffic stopper